Upcoming Conferences

Innovation & Experimentalism in Translation and Translation Theory

18 & 19 November 2017, University of East Anglia, Norwich

The 7th Biennial Postgraduate Translation Symposium will focus on innovative or experimental developments in literary translation practices, in translation theory, across the history of translation and in the practical applications of translation. We hope to ponder both new critical developments, and new creative opportunities. It will consider the challenges, and explore whether innovation has its limits. It will also consider where innovation and experimentalism may lead the future of Translation Studies.

Keynote speakers: Dr Rocío Baños Piñero, UCL; Professor Catherine Boyle, KCL; Professor Tom Cheesman, Swansea; Clive Scott, Emeritus Professor, UEA.

Registration fee:

UEA students and students at CHASE institutions – free.

£20.00 (other students/unwaged); £30.00 (full price).

Registration will be required for all delegates – registration will open later in the year.

Contact details: translationsymposium@uea.ac.uk

Symposium generously supported by:

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UEA; the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership; the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT).

Previous Conferences

Shakespeare in Translation

10 & 11 December 2016, University of East Anglia, Norwich

In collaboration with the British Council, Globe Education and Writers' Centre Norwich.

A conference that brought together translators, academics and theatre practitioners from the UK and overseas to discuss Shakespeare in translation and his international reception. This was the final event in the British Council’s 2016 programme “A Great Feast of Languages”, which marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It featured three translation workshop sessions, six short presentations on aspects of Shakespeare in translation, and recorded perfomances of new translations produced by participants in international translation workshops held in Cologne, Mexico City and Singapore.

Dalit Literature And/In Translation

29 - 30 June 2015 at the University of East Anglia

The Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in collaboration with the research centre EMMA at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, created an international academic network to enable a multi-disciplinary dialogue on Indian literature produced by Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables) by hosting a series of workshops and conferences on the production, translation, dissemination and analysis of Dalit literature.

As part of this network, BCLT hosted a conference at the University of East Anglia in June 2015.

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Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries

Thursday 4 December 2014

University of East Anglia

A round table to celebrate the publication of Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries (Palgrave Macmillan) edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Antoinette Fawcett and Philip Wilson.

Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries is a collection of articles that gathers together current work in literary translation to show how research in the field can speak to other disciplines whilst simultaneously learning from them.

Contributors included  BJ Epstein, Duncan Large, Clive Scott and George Szirtes.